Dia De Andalucia Part 1

February 28th is the Day of Andalucia!!!  It would be like a huge statewide celebration in the USA.
The festivities started today with a large concert type show at the school.  Each of the grades did a presentation about the culture of the region and it was really wonderful.  We had song and dance, poems and instruments, and costumes and food.

Keagan dressed up a little and had a song and a dance part.

Makenna had a flower and traditional Spanish hairpiece in her hair. (she hates having her hair done so it was a bit of a struggle but once she had it in she loved it)  Her class recited a poem.

Jackson's class did a song. Jacob's class only had the girls do something and Miranda's class played a song on the recorder and sang a song.  It was very fun and they all did a wonderful job.

After the kids did their performance the city hall paid for all the children and the parents that wanted to have Spanish Churros and Chocolate.

It is hard to describe exactly what they are like because the churros are a little different then what we think of in the US and the hot chocolate it actually more like thin chocolate pudding not just hot chocolate.  You dip your churro's in the chocolate and it is the most wonderful thing.

This man is pouring the churro batter into a large funnel and then he has a pipe with a nozzle that opens up into his pot of frying oil.

It really is a slick operation, he was able to make enough curros for the whole school in a rather short time.

Thursday and Friday will be No School and more celebration so there will be more posts on The Day of Andalucia to come.